
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing (British novelist, 1919 – 2013). Below are 1 quotes by Doris Lessing from QuotePlace, each as a quote card.
British novelist, author of The Golden Notebook; she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.Doris Lessing